It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old.
He walked noisily, like a fish.
The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn’t like the country and never looks at it.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
The bourgeois are other people.
We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.