Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.