 Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. |
| The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. |
| Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. |
| Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. |
| If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. |
| Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. |
| All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. |
| Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. |
| Silence moves faster when it's going backward. |
| You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. |
| What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. |
| The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. |
| I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. |
| There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. |
| Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. |
| A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. |
| In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. |
| One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. |
| Life is a horizontal fall. |
| An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. |
