The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
Talent is nothing but long patience.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
To be simple is no small matter.
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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