“One does not miss what one has never had.”
“Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing”
“One does what one is; one becomes what one does.”
“An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does”
“It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is”