“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice”

“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us”

“The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.”

“Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?”

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

“We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.”

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”