I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

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