First of all, be what you are.

More from La joie (Joy) 1929

• Appearances are nothing…. And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.
• I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.
• Only the present counts.
• There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.
• Hell is not to love anymore.
• There’s no hatred that can ever be satisfied either in this world or the next, and the hatred that one has for oneself is probably the one for which there is no forgiveness.