What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.