That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

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.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.