Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.