The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.