For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.