There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.