Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
I’ve discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it.
Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.