The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

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

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.