I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
Read in order to live.
It’s a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
You don’t know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.