To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
Art: to nudge truth along a little.
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.