There is no truth. There is only perception.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Talent is nothing but long patience.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.
Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
To be simple is no small matter.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.
I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
Read in order to live.
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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