I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.