Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.