“A complete person, if necessary, knows as to show his essence as an innocent angel or a dangerous devil.”

Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo [Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue] (1920); Two Mothers

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

As quoted in Manipulus Florum (c. 1306), edited by Thomas Hibernicus, Superbia i cum uariis; also in Best Thoughts Of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to unlock the Literature of All Ages (1904) edited by Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller
Disputed

Song lyrics, Los Angeles (1980), The World's A Mess It's In My Kiss

Note to The Voice of the Devil
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)

Assorted Themes, On Form, Essence & Matter

Michel Henry, C'est moi la Vérité, éd. du Seuil, 1996, p. 291
Books on Religion and Christianity, I am the Truth. Toward a philosophy of Christianity (1996)
Original: (fr) Mais quand donc ce bouleversement émotionnel qui ouvre le vivant à sa propre essence se produit-il et pourquoi ? Nul ne le sait. L’ouverture émotionnelle du vivant à sa propre essence ne peut naître que du vouloir de la vie elle-même, comme cette re-naissance qui lui donne d’éprouver soudain sa naissance éternelle. L’Esprit souffle où il veut.