"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…"

"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)"

"Let grammar rule the man who doesn't know how to think what he feels.(84)"

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