What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
Read in order to live.
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
Exuberance is better than taste.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
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