When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.