Who said “If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of…”?

“The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.”

“The main motive for ''nonattachment'' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

“The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.”

“To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!”

“Art is science made clear.”

“Life is a horizontal fall.”

“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”

“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”

“It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.”

“One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.”