Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]
Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.
To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.