But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

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.