I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.