But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.