Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.