“Whoever loves the more is at a disadvantage and must suffer”

“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”

“Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?”

“I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.”

“For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.”

“These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they live, and they therefore see in it nothing more than an indifferent framework for life, either more or less favorable to production.”

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”