“Don't fool yourself that they don't know. You might not admit that the sun exists, but it exists anyway.”

“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

“Then why are you talking about exhibitionism? It's a ridiculous term. Someone wants to celebrate their existence and you call it exhibitionism. It's niggardly. If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In thousands of agonies -- I exist. I'm tormented on the rack -- but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar -- I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”

“And I don't know if you understand, but that makes for a lonely existence.”

“You don't believe in love, do you?" - "I think it exists. I just don't think it will ever exist for me.”