For what does it mean to look at something, a real object in the real world, an animal, for example, and say that it is something other than what it is? It is to say that each thing leads a double life, at once in the world and in our minds, and that to deny either one of these lives is to kill the thing in both its lives at once.

You’re a dreamer, boy,” he said. “Your mind is on the moon, and from the looks of things, it’s nevergoing to be anywhere else. You have no ambitions, you don’t give a damn about money, and you’retoo much of a philosopher to have any feeling for art. What am I going to do with you? You needsomeone to look after you, to make sure you have food in your belly and a bit of cash in your pocket.Once I’m gone, you’ll be right back where you started.

…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt her just as much as they hurt him and that except for the fact that she was older, there was no difference between them.

(...) a lire belongs only to the person who lives it; life itself will claim the living; to live is to let live.

She's too sad to be beautiful. No one that sad can still be beautiful.

The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

No one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him.

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than this surface to others.

کمدی بزرگ ریاکاری انسان هرگز پایان نمی گیرد؛ از هیچ طرف. و چه خوشت بیاید، چه نیاید، جالب ترین نمایش است.