Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?