Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.