Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.