The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
Being bored is an insult to oneself.