I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.