The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
Read in order to live.
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.