Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations.

There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it.

The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.

Our spirit is universal, all powerful, and limitless. Why do we put societal boundaries around us? They are not boundless.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

You will never be as smart as your subconscious.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.