If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.

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.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.