To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.