Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.