Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.
Style is to forget all styles.
Art: to nudge truth along a little.
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.
The bourgeois are other people.
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.
To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
The less I understand life, the more I live it!
The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
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