Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.