I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
And trade is art, and art's philosophy, In Paris.
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
Todo lo que sabemos del amor es que el amor es todo lo que hay.
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
