Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.