I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it made me sorry, did not horrify me. But what am I experiencing when I read myself as if I were someone else? On which bank am I standing if I see myself in the depths?

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.