1. “Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.”
2. “The principal ting in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.”
3. “It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.”
4. “For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.”
5. “Talent is nothing but long patience.”
6. “Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”
7. “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.”
8. “The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.”
9. “Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.”
10. “Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”
11. “A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.”
12. “A man is a critic hen he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.”
13. “The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
14. “Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.”
15. “Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.”
16. “Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”
17. “Style is a much under the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.”
18. “Beautiful thing spoil nothing.”
19. “The more humanity advances, the ore it is degraded.”
20. “Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”
21. “There is no truth. There is only perception.”
22. “Writing is dog’s life, but the only life worth living.”
23. “Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”
24. “One must always hope one is desperate and doubt when one hopes.”
25. “Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”
26. “Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprise we have failed in.”
27. “The future is the worst thing about the present.”
28. “One can be a master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
29. “Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.”
30. “Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
