“There are two stages - living on little, and living on nothing. They are like two rooms, the first dark, the second pitch-black.”

“There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?”

“Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.”

“If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!”

“There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.”

“Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.”