Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

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

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

What am I doing here in this endless winter?

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.