Success Is A Consequence And Must Not

Art Requires Neither Complaisance Nor Politeness; Nothing But Faith, Faith And Freedom.

One's Existence Should Be In Two Parts: One Should Live Like A Bourgeois And Think Like A Demigod.

A Superhuman Will Is Needed In Order To Write, And I Am Only A Man.

Writing History Is Like Drinking An Ocean And Pissing A Cupful.

The Rage For Wanting To Conclude Is One Of The Most Deadly And Most Fruitless Manias To Befall Humanity. Each Religion And Each Philosophy Has Pretended To Have God To Itself, To Measure The Infinite, And To Know The Recipe For Happiness. What Arrogance And What Nonsense! I See, To The Contrary, That The Greatest Geniuses And The Greatest Works Have Never Concluded.