Find your happiness in yourself.

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.