“one must first learn to live oneself before one blames others”

“What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.”

“For no reason, but the sunrise, the bay of Naples, the sea—you look at them and it makes you sad. What’s most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it’s better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.”

“To confess one's guilt and one's original sin is little, very little; one must wean oneself away from them completely. And that takes more than a little time.”

“And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?”

“I've found out more in this one cursed night than I'd have learned in twenty years of living.”

“Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.”