Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

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

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

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

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.