Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.