Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.