To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
The soul is healed by being with children.
People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
Beauty will save the world.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.