“As I grow to understand life less and less,I learn to love it more and more.”

“if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.”

“Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?”

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”

“When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.”

“The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.”

“I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.”