Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.