We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.