“Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did?”

“And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. [last words]”

“We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.”

“In a country where everyone is trying to be noticed, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.”

“Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.”

“In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.”

“Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself — and impossible to find anywhere else.”