To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

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

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.