“One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.”

“I was not unhappy, except one day at a time.”

“One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.”

“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ”

“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”

“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”

“There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.”