I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

Je suis autant Chinois que Fran c° ais. I am as much Chinese as French.

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

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