To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know
Use words that soak up life.
There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.
Women alone stir my imagination.
If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.