Having money is a way of being free of money.
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
A loveless world is a dead world.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Liberty is the right not to lie.
All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.
Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.
It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
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