“Anything that consoles is fake.”

“So you're all alone. And, for a short while, at least until it sinks in, you can fake anything.”

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”

“The worst sickness of men tends to originate in the sentimental way they try to combat their sicknesses. What seems like an easy cure, in the long run produces something worse than what it's supposed to overcome. Fake consolations always have to be paid for with a general and profound worsening of the original complaint.”

“The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.”

“Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.”