Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.