That's it, I guess. Just go on living, whether you feel like it or not.

People say that a person needs six feet of earth. But in fact it's a corpse that needs six feet of earth, not a person. People don’t need six feet of earth, or even a house in the country, but the whole globe, the whole of nature in its entirety, so they can have the space to express all the capacities and particularities of their free spirit.

People don't notice wheter it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Her spirits rose, and she, too, laughing and clasping her hands, thought that she could not go on living such a life, that there was no need to have a wretched life when one might have a splendid one.

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

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