To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.

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

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.