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We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job . . .
If disgust for the world conferred sanctity of itself, I fail to see how I could avoid canonization.
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.
Truer words were never written
X, whom I do not particularly appreciate, was telling a story so stupid that I wakened with a start: those we don’t like rarely shine in our dreams.
