Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.