Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.
Paul ValeryMan's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
Paul ValeryNothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
Paul Valery