One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

I do not hope for victory

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.