自己
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
The real way of living is to answer to one’s wants.
The only thing you can do with good advice is pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
The writer must be able to superintend himself and criticize himself.
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
The truth is, every writer creates his own precursors.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.
He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.