No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.
I donโt believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
Art like life is an open secret.
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.