It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.