خير لحظات الحب هي ما سبقت قول أحبّك. - André Gide

"One must allow other people to be right," he used to say when he was insulted, "It consoles them for not being anything else."

Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not — they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry — I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia — it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.