Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.