I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.