“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.