“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”

“Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about...”

“There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.”

“What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.”

“He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the m...”