A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.
There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.
In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.
