It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.