Art: to nudge truth along a little.
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.