Life and death have been lacking in my life.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Life itself is a quotation.

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.