1. “When characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follows them in action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.”
2. “Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be – like the reality of yesterday – an illusion tomorrow.”
3. “I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.”
4. “One cannot choose what he writes – one can only choose to face it.”
5. “Pretending is a virtue. If you can’t pretend, you can’t be king.”
6. “Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn’t it?”
7. “Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
8. “Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like.to have them”
9. “If only we could see in advance all he harm that can come from the god we think we are doing.”
10. “We think we understand each other, but we really do.”
11. “It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.”
12. “We’re like so many puppets hung o the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.”
13. “Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”
14. “The history of mankind is the history of ideas.”
15. “None of us can estimate what we can do it from instinct.”
16. “it is much easier to be a hero than a gentle man.”
17. “Not one of us can lie or pretend. We’re all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.”
18. “Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.”
19. “The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.”
20. “As soon as one is born, one starts dying.”
21. “Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”
22. “Nature uses human intelligence to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”
23. “It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!”
24. “You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.”
25. “We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can’t make it think.”
26. “Whoever has the luck to be born a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will neer die!”
27. “In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”
28. “Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.”
29. “When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.”
30. “Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won’t work out.”
