To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.