I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.