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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.