"I do not want to be a burden on anyone. I want to be able to live alone and to die alone."

"The greatest joy is to be able to say, 'I have lived.'"

"Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When I sleep, I am a stone in the ground."

"I have had a great deal of experience with people, and I have found that they are all the same, only in different ways."

"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or no eyes."