My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

The face is the soul of the body.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.