The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
