"Dear Reader: I wonder if you may not sometimes have felt inclined to doubt a little the correctness of the familiar p…"

"These papers have afforded me an insight into the lives of two men, which has confirmed my hunch that the external is…"

"A’s papers contain a number of attempts to formulate an aesthetic philosophy of life. A single, coherent, aesthetic v…"

"What is a poet? An unhappy man who conceals profound anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so fashioned that when …"

"My view of life is utterly meaningless. I suppose an evil spirit has set a pair of spectacles upon my nose of which o…"

"Life has become a bitter drink to me, and yet I must take it like medicine, slowly, drop by drop."

"No one ever comes back from the dead, no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is asked when he wishes to…"

"Alas, the doors of fortune do not open inward, so that by storming them one can force them open; but they open outwar…"

"Time flows, life is a stream, people say, and so on. I do not notice it. Time stands still, and I with it. All the pl…"

"To forget — this is the desire of all people, and when they encounter something unpleasant, they always say: If only …"