To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

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

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.

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.