"We all must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism" "We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world."

"Living is not about avoiding abysses. Living is avoiding what does not give a chance of an abyss. Let there always be an abyss to save me from the fall"