It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.