All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

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

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.