Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

The only way to kill death is through photography.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.