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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
I don't claim to have taste , but of my distaste I am very sure .
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
Style is to forget all styles.
The less I understand life, the more I live it!
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
He walked noisily, like a fish.
Words are the small change of thought.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
I have no religion,' says Borneau, 'but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.' Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.
Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure out of the mementos of her year!
Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.
In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.
I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
God does not believe in our God.
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
If I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
Fame is a constant effort.
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.
Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.
To think is not enough, you must think of something.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
