One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.