I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

After all, there is nothing but failure.

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The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.