Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

What goes up must come down.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

It takes a long time to grow young.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.