| Quotes |
Topic |
| Achievement | An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. |
| Art and Artists | Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. |
| Books | A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. |
| Charm | You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. |
| Charm | Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. |
| Immortality | In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. |
| Immortality | There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse. |
| Experience | You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. |
| Fallibility | We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others. |
| Fate | There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. |
| Freedom | Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. |
| Generosity | Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. |
| Genius | I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man. |
| Happiness | But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. |
| Hope | In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. |
| Leadership | The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. |
| Life | He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. |
| Literary | All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. |
| Literature | A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. |
| Love | After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason. |
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