I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.