The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover