Murder is terribly exhausting.

We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

Happiness too is inevitable.

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.