She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

I’ll never second guess the things that I have done. I’ve got too much left to say and too much to become.

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated.

It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

The only way to find your voice is to use it

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.

Read much, but not many works.