The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot.

I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.