We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
Where there is no hope, we must invent it.
A fate is not a punishment.
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.