No one values their life less than a young man, and then later, the older he gets and the less reason he has for living, the more he clings to life.

We should kill our pasts with each passing day. Blot them out, so that they will not hurt. Each present day could thus be endured more easily, it would not be measured against what no longer exists. As things our, spectres mix with our lives so that there is neither pure memory nor pure life. They clash and try to strangle each other, continually.

U stvari, reda se malo i plaši, red je konačnost, tvrdi zakon, umanjivanje broja mogućih životnih oblika, lažno uvjerenje da vladamo životom, a život se sve više otima, sve nam više izmiče što ga više stežemo.

Sve bi se u životu moglo izdržati za kratko, i da budeš dobar, i hrabar, i pažljiv, ali život ne traje kratko, a ništa ne može postati teško kao obaveza koju sam sebi nametneš u jednom času slabosti ili oduševljenja. Stid te da odustaneš, muka da istraješ, a nemaš koga da psuješ, jer si sam sebe natovario.