One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

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

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.