"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
"Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness."
"We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."
"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."
"Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult."
"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."