Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

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

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.