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.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

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.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.