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.
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.
I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
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.