I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!