The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

The consciousness of life is higher than life.