One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.