“Better oblivion chosen of his own will than torture forever according to his brother's.”
“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?”
“There is no better guide to this world than oblivion.”
“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than of logic: the philosopher believes not according to evidence, but according to his own temperament; and his thinking merely serves to make reasonable what his instinct regards as true.”
“It is better to leave each one in his own opinion than to enter into arguments.”
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent for words, neither for paints nor music; his uselessness is tremendously total.”