Author of quotes: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

The truth has always made me regret uncertainty.

Why do people not tolerate the truth? First, because the truth disappoints them. Secondly, because most often the truth lacks interest. Thirdly, because the truth is completely different from reality. For the most part, lies are better tailored. Fourth, because the truth hurts.

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.

It is difficult for a poor man not to feel any malice; it is easy for a rich man not to boast of it.

We are all born brothers by nature, and education makes us different.

The truth is exactly the lie that we like the most.

Good behavior has no taste like water.

Doing noticeable work is more important than being noticeable.

Experience is a candle that shines only to the one who holds it.

“I was just thinking about that” Grandma Rosa, - that there is no other solution for life than just living.

- What do you accuse them of?
- They're afraid of me. They don't dare talk to me. And the more they are timid, the more I think of myself as a monster. Why? Am I terrifying them? Am I so ugly? Did I become an idiot and didn't notice it myself?
- Oscar, they're not afraid of you. They are afraid of your illness.
My illness is a part of me. They shouldn't change their behavior because I'm sick. Can they only love me when I'm healthy?

But if I were him, if I were God, if I had opportunities like him, I would try to avoid suffering.
- No one can escape suffering. Neither God nor you. Not your parents, not me.
- Okay. I agree. But why suffer?
- Exactly. Suffering is a misery. Look closely at his face. Take a look. Does he have a suffering appearance?
- Nope. Wow, it doesn't seem to hurt.
- Well, yes. It is necessary to distinguish between two types of torment, baby Oscar, - physical suffering and moral suffering. Physical suffering is a test. Moral suffering is a choice.
- I don't understand.
- If nails are driven into your legs or wrists, you have no choice but to experience pain. You tolerate. On the contrary, at the thought of death you do not have to experience pain. You don't know what it is. So it's up to you.

She opened the door, and then we both really got scared and screamed that there was urine: she - because she did not expect to stumble upon me here, and I - because I forgot that she was so black.

“You're right, Oscar. I think that the same mistake is made in relation to life. We forget that life is thin, fragile, ephemeral. We do our best to appear immortal.