One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.