“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Nature“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.”
Art“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
Life“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”
Good“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
War“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.”
Experience“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
Life“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
Hope“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
Alone“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
Art“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
Change“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”
War“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.”
Death“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
Fear“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
Courage“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
Intelligence“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
Nature“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
Future“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
Death“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.”
God“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.”
Beauty