Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.