“Your judgement judges you and defines you.”

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

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.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in, even if the reward is massive!

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I’m not a bad person.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can’t be dirty.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

You can be a pretty face, but if you’re not a nice person, it just doesn’t work.

If you’re beautiful inside it shows on the outside.