God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.
Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.