How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. |
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. |
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. |
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. |
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. |
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. |
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. |
With renunciation life begins. |
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. |
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. |
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. |
Lovers should also have their days off. |
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. |
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. |
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? |
Novels are longer than life. |
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. Topics: Love |
It is time for dead languages to be quiet. |