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

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

...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.

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.