My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?
Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-AdamUncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore โ if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?
Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-AdamThere are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-AdamEvery human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.
Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam