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

Religions get lost as people do.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

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.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.