"Despair is the sickness unto death, this tormenting contradiction, this sickness in the self; it is to be eternally dying, to die and yet not die, to die the death."

"I am a living demonstration of the fact that a man can remain a virgin until he is 30, and yet be a man."

"Most men live in a world that is not their own, but one in which they have been placed by others."

"What is important is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die."

"The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed."