If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.