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To belong to something - that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles.

Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfilment of my being.

I loathe the happiness of all these people who don't know they're unhappy.

Living is in itself dying because every new day we enjoy is another day of our lives lost.

The gods grant nothing more than life,
So let us reject whatever lifts us
To unbreathable heights,
Eternal but flowerless.

Everyone and everything oppresses me, chokes and maddens me; I am troubled by a crushing physical sense of other people's lack of comprehension.

These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is.

He must be a grown man, stolid, reliably fulfilling his duties, married perhaps, someone's breadwinner - in other words, one of the living dead.