Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

The solution of every problem is another problem

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.