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