“Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.”
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.”
“Life with another person is always difficult.”
“An Apostle can never come to himself in such a way that he becomes conscious of his apostolic calling as a factor in the development of his life. Apostolic calling is a paradoxical factor, which from first to last in his life stands paradoxically outside his personal identity with himself as the definite person he is.”
“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”
“A book is like a person, and one's reaction to a person invariably has more to do with one's own personality and life experience than with the actual person herself.”