“Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love. ”
“Why should you renounce everything? You are all right as you are, following the middle...”
“Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.”
“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”
“To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.”
“And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.'To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so.”