Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

I'm too old to know everything

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.