If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

War can't bring peace in the world

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.

Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.

A batch of credit cards fattens a wallet before it thins it.

But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.

Obsess about the next customer, not only the ones you have.

People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.