The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

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

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.