If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

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 love only what we do not wholly possess.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.