"I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had ha…"

"I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathe…"

"And at this table in my absured room, I, a pathetic and anonymous office clerk, write words as if they were the soul'…"

"We never know self-realization. We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.(11)"

"I saw the truth for a moment. For a moment I was consciously what great men are their entire lives. I recall their wo…"

"And then I wonder what this thing is that we call death. I don't mean the mystery of death, which I can't begin to fa…"

"To understand, I destroyed myself.(48)"

"Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.(60)"

"I have no other virtue, I at least have the permanent novelty of free, uninhibited sensation.(70)"

"In these random impressions, with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my factless autobiograph…"