Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Imagination is the voice of the daring.
For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.
We create our fate everyday
With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
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