"She lacks confidence she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself."
- Anais Nin
"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."
- Blaise Pascal
"I postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing."
"Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably."
"When one is pretending the entire body revolts."
"Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky."
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person."
"I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God."
- Francois Rabelais
"He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry."