You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

Morality, when formal, devours.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.