Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Respectability offends my taste.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.