I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world