It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.