An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
Art: to nudge truth along a little.