Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.

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

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.