We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
On his election to the Académie Française
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by its source.
I feel there is an angel within me whom I am constantly shocking.
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
Essay originally published in 1918. Source.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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