What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.