Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

The will to be oneself is heroism

Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.

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