We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

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

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.