You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.