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It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
There is no frontier between being and appearing.
There is no love of life without despair of life.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger
There is only one class of men, the privileged class
but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand
History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Some are created to love, while the others - to live.
Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.
Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.