One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

Life is heavier than the weight of all things.