I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

The limited circle is pure.