Read in order to live.
I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.
The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
Exuberance is better than taste.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.
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