Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Respectable people... What bastards!
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
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