I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write..

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest..

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life..

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters..

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that p….

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds..

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds..

Man is what he believes..

Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but….

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time..

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admi….

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not….

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation..

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no m….

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole u….

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about..

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange ….

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!.

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to los….

In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memo….

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness..