Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

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

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

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

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

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.