“The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.”

“The whole point of becoming an adult is to achieve self-reliance.”

“We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.”

“Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.”

“One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.”

“Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.”