Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.