“Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.”

“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”

“In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging things as they ought to be; and when, in the end, everything became so good it almost began to be boring, then I was going to stuff my pockets with as much money as I could lay hands on and creep away, vanish in some cosmopolis and sit at a corner cafe and drink absinthe and enjoy seeing how everything went to the devil as soon as I wasn't on the scene any more.”

“Never will she be mine; never. I never brought a flush to her cheek, and it is not I who now have made it so chalk-white. And never will she slip across the street in the night, with anxiety in her heart and a letter to me. Life has passed me by. [..] I have got new curtains for my study; pure white. When I awoke this morning, I first thought it had been snowing. In my room the light was exactly as it is after the first fall of snow. I even fancied I caught the scent of snow freshly fallen. And soon it will come, the snow. One feels it in the air. It will be welcome. Let it come. Let it fall.”

“Când vine vorba de amanții unei femei, se aplică îndeobște aritmetica negrilor australieni: ei numără doar până la trei. Tot ce depășește trei se cheamă "mulți".”

“nu adevărul, ci iluziile și fanteziile au fost forța motrice a tuturor marilor realizări ale omenirii și sămânța a tot ce numim fericire omenească.”

“Nu pricep cum se poate disprețui originea unui popor, indiferent dacă e cel care l-a inventat pe Dumnezeu sau cel care a inventat cifrele!”