History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.