You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

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.