There is no truth. There is only perception.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
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.
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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.
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 stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Talent is nothing but long patience.
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.
To be simple is no small matter.
Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
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.
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.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
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.
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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