As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.