He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.