"I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me."

"What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?"

"Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one."

"I know nothing and my heart aches"

"…to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…"

"Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one."

"To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)"

"Writing is like paying myself a formal visit…"

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes to where life is not painful; nor is there a port of call where it is possible to forget."

"I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought."

"My boredom with everything has numbed me."

"Everything is theater."

"This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right."

"Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns."

"Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking."

"To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success."

"We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong."

"Life is whatever we conceive it to be."

"Pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation."

"Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!..."

"Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way."

"To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life."

"I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays."

"There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes."

"I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul"

"I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world."

"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."

"The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart."

"Everything interests me, but nothing holds me."

"From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I"

"To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves."

"FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough..."

"We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence."

"I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally."

"I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me."