My poems mean what people take them to mean.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.