Quotes by writer

"But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world."

"For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites."

"One expresses well only the love he does not feel."

"It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war."

"Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak."

"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."

"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed."

"You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad."

"But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us."

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."

"It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you."

"True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man."

"On ne sait jamais! One never knows!"

"To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause."

"Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together."

"I am who I am and I have the need to be."

"Grown ups are certainly very strange."

"Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away."

"if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?"

"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."

"We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed."

"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas."

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

"Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes."