Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.