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That parasite: the past.
Eternity - waste of time.
Novels are longer than life.
With renunciation life begins.
Silence too can be indiscreet.
In love there is no status quo.
Eternity: what a waste of time.
My only books were women's looks.
Might I be the one I am looking for?
Our shadows are taller than ourselves.
If only art were as rare as good taste.
Lovers should also have their days off.
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.
It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.
Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.
I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
To be married is to be neither alone nor together.
What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.