I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.
[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.