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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Each person’s life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Must I tell the story of my life again?

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.