Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it.

The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Those who are fortunate to be educated, must light the flame of fire.

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds.

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

We think abortion is a bad thing.

Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.

Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.

Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force.