No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
When we speak the word “life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
