“How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.”

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”

“I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.”

“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”

“This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.”

“Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?”

“Nature is a temple, where the livingColumns sometimes breathe confusing speech;Man walks within these groves of symbols, eachOf which regards him as a kindred thing.”