Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

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?

and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it

Leaders do not die with their music on their tongues unsung. They provide services that make them unleash their God-given potentials!

Of all the gifts you can get, friends and family are the best!

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

I don't think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too.

He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.