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

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger