Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
The habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us..
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
