My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

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?

The grass is yellow on both sides, envy turning on of them green.

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam... it just makes you like everybody else.

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!