Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.