“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”
“......and not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now...”
“My whole belief in life was based on the fact that [she] loved me.”
“All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.”
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as have scarcely ever become the basis of convictions.”