A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

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The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.