Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

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.

There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.