Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.