“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”

“An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.”

“There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.”

“We only serve as a model to the portrait of our fame”

“When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.”

“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”

“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”