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

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

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

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

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.