He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.