Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

What you get free costs too much.

My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

C'est la grande faiblesse des hommes de projeter ce qu'ils ont refoulé en eux -- sur les autres.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

The object of art is to give life shape.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.

ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you―do you have the feeling that―that a great empty space is being hollowed out inside you, that there is something inside you that is just―dying?
HAEMON: Yes, I do, I do.

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.