A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when...
It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
To be a man is precisely to be responsible.
Words are the source of misunderstandings.
The only things you learn are the things you tame
Le langage est source de malentendus.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden...yet they don't find what they are looking for.
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.
¡Un día vi ponerse el sol cuarenta y tres veces!
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times!And a little later you added:You know-- one loves the sunet, when one is so sad...Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-fou...
Nothing's perfect, sighed the fox. My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So I'm rather bored. But if you tame me, my life wil...
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Les enfants seuls savent ce qu’ils cherchent
I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. They talked abo...