The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

Life should be lived to the point of tears

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.