It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.