The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
The color of truth is gray.
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Long only for what you have.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.
A work of art is an exaggeration.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.