How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction. - André Gide

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.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Le difficile dans la vie, c'est de prendre au sérieux longtemps de suite la même chose.