I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across many of them, and anyhow it must be a hard vocation. That's why I decided to take, in every p...
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless...
Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the lull that follows battle; it was the silence of de...
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everyb...
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poeti...
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible.
We are not certain we are never certain.
You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.