Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

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

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

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.

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

People's fates are simplified by their names.