It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.