The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Life is the sum of your choices.
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
The innocent is the person who explains nothing
When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
When there is no hope, one must invent hope.
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