Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.