Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.