“One must look for one thing only, to find many.”

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

To know the world, one must construct it.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

We’ll find our love in the sky.

Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.