Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.