Elsa Triolet Quotes

You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.

Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.

I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity … I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

Time burns but leaves no ashes.