There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.