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

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.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.