Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.