Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.
But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.
Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world