Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
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.
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
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.
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
