Life is given us as a passion.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.