How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.
Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.