"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of lang…"

"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."

"To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the d…"

"A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impe…"

"True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams."

"The reflected world is the conquest of calm"

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house prot…"

"Words … are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to e…"

"The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in."

"There is no original truth, only original error."