War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

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.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.