At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips..

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a h….

To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once….

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal..

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the exp….

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror….

People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a….

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today..

Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who have given….

I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought ….

Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utte….

I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb th….

I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter wha….

I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male..

Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, prin….

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling..

Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk..

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more..

I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this ….

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm..