Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.
The object of art is to give life shape.
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
What you get free costs too much.
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.
Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.
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