Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.