Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.