Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.