Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.