The more you complain the longer God lets you live

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.