Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.