Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.
The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.