Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

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?

[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

His body felt so good that she didn't care if she ever came up for air. She wanted this kiss to last forever.

your depth in language cannot be considered that you are talented. only your attitude ! mind it ..

She was worshiping under the blue sky, to the jubilant chanting of the birds.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking.

If he'd done something to harm her, I would annihilate him.