One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.