Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.