“To understand is to forgive.”

“Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.”

“To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?”

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”

“In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom.”

“Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie.”

“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”