Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.