To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

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

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.