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

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.