I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.