Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

Sphinxes without secrets.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.