"The greatest danger for man, in the whole of his life, is to lose himself, to lose his own self."

"My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known."

"I can sum up in one sentence what directly led to my break with the established order of things: it was the complete and utter lack of seriousness, and that Christianity was being turned into a game."

"What is terrible is not death, but the lives people live or don't live up to their death."

"What is a poet? An unhappy man who in his heart harbors a profound agony, but whose lips are so fashioned that the sounds that emerge from them are like the beautiful music of an organ."