After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason |
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. |
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. |
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. |
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. |
All healthy men have thought of their own suicide |
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. |
All that I know of Morality and obligations I owe to football |
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. |
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself |
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. |
And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions |
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. |
As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness! |
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. |