Occupation: Author Birth: November 22, 1869 Death: February 19, 1951
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits..
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature..
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them..
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable..
When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything..
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives ….
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interpr….
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word..
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?.
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's..
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity..
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone..
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and i….
An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to i….
The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy..
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting ev….
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age..
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothi….
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life..
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else..
Please do not understand me too quickly..