The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.