Most people do not read; those who read do not understand; those who understand forget.

It’s when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

One puts into one’s art what one has not been capable of putting into one’s existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Great ideas are not charitable.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.