“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

“Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”

“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”

“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.”

“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”

“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”

“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”

“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”

“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.”

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”

“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”

“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”