If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them … they could perceive what they have made of us.
I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
Everything is true, and nothing is true!
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand th...
After awhile you could get used to anything.
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of the town they would have liked t...
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absol...
Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.