To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.