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

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

“Hell is oneself,
Hell is alone.”

“Except for cases of pathological incapacity, one can and must communicate, and thereby contribute in a useful and easy way to the peace of others and oneself, because silence, the absence of signals, is itself a signal, but an ambiguous one, and ambiguity generates anxiety and suspicion. To say that it is impossible to communicate is false; one always can.”

“One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.”

“When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.”

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

“One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”

“Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.”

“There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”