What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength.

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

A big book is a big misfortune.

In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Russia should be competitive, be able to protect its own interests and influence the processes that are important to it.