Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.