All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

The only possible paradises are those we have lost

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

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

The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.