Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.