My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.

At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.

If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

We are all happy if we but knew it.