Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

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

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

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.