Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.