“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”
“I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness”
“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”
“Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.”
“Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.”
“It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.”