Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept the...
Fate is not in man but around him
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice...
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
[…] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Per...
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, for...
Ce qu'on appelle une raison de vivre est en même temps une excellente raison de mourir.
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. If they are happy by surprise, they find themselve...
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
There are more things to admire in men then to despise.