I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.