As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

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

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.