Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
You can't find the soul with a scalpel.
Art is nothing without form.
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.
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.