Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

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

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

Evil is whatever distracts.

I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.