Art: to nudge truth along a little.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.