“Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.”

“He has forgotten how to hope. This hell of the present is his Kingdom at last. All problems recover their sharp edge. Abstract evidence retreats before the poetry of forms and colors. Spiritual conflicts become embodied and return to the abject and magnificent shelter of man’s heart. None of them is settled. But all are transfigured.”

“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”

“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.”

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

“True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. ”

“The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.”