The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself; I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward; as for me, I roll about in myself.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

My art and profession is to live.