Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.