“The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.”

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding out what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”

“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.”

“One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.”

“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

“To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”

“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”

“It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself.”

“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”

“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”