For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.