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| I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all | | Speech | |
| I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed | | Uncategorized | |
| I maintain that ideas are events. It is more difficult to make them interesting, I know, but if you fail the style is at fault. | | Uncategorized | |
| In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on. | | Mediocrity | |
| Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. | | Uncategorized | |
| Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. | | Language | |
| Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. | | Love | |
| My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science. | | Science | |
| Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed at | | Uncategorized | |
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| Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc wreaking | | Uncategorized | |
| Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. | | Uncategorized | |
| Poetry is as exact a science as geometry | | Poetry | |
| Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason | | Uncategorized | |
| Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. | | Uncategorized | |
| She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances | | Beauty | |
| Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert | | Uncategorized | |
| Success is a result, not a goal | | Success | |
| The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. | | Uncategorized | |
| The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. | | Uncategorized | |
