Precisely this one, which I had intended to be published anonymously so that it could never build any reputation on the part of the author, did become a success.... Don't aim at success - the more you aim and make it a target, the more you are going ...
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
To be understood is to prostitute oneself
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.
To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.
Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
