When there is no hope, one must invent hope.
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
After awhile you could get used to anything.
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
We all have a weakness for beauty.
Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Integrity has no need of rules.
It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
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