“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.

In love, one and one are one.

Existence is an imperfection.

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

You are — your life, and nothing else.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.

It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

Existence is prior to essence.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

If you salute your work, You do not have to salute anybody. If you pollute your work,You have to salute everybody.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Your tomorrow depends entirely on what you do today.