Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.

age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search there above for the themes of our lives, for those frigid sympathies that participate in our achievements as well as our blunderings.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.