Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

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