Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

Every great day has a story and a song!

If you think that climate change and global warming are hoaxes, then you are easily fooled.

History is a vast early warning system.

It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.