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!

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

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.