Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Talent is nothing but long patience.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

To be simple is no small matter.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.