But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting..

Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heav….

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come..

A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result ….

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end..

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue..

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work..

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it..

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten..

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again..

To know the world, one must construct it.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever..

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties..

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company..

In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of ent….

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to hi….

It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her..

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence..

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny an….

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, i….

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. O….