But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.