Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. ... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.