 Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. |
| Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. |
| You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. |
| Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. |
| How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. |
| The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. |
| What is a rebel? A man who says no. |
| Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. |
| Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. |
| Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. Topics: Courage |
| The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. |
| Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. |
| Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. |
| Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. |
| We are all special cases. |
| Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. |
| You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. |
| It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. |
| One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. |
| Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. |
