I blurted out that it was because of the sun. People laughed. My lawyer threw up his hands, and immediately after that he was given the floor.

I got up right away because I was hungry, but Marie told me I hadn't kissed her since that morning. It was true, and yet I had wanted to.

The beginning of war is similar to the beginning of peace — the world and the heart know nothing about it.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

Time flies so fast because it does not have any guidance. Like the moon in its zenith or the horizon.

That was his poverty, that was his sole wealth. As if by writing zero, he was starting over but with a consciousness of his powers and a lucid intoxication which urged him on in the face of his fate.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Man is incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.