When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Novels are longer than life.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

With renunciation life begins.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Fatalism is the lazy man’s way of accepting the inevitable.