Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.