An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.