29 quotes found
“It is better to burn than to disappear.”
“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.”
“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.”
“For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with h...”
“How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.”
“As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much ...”
“And just then it crossed my mind that one might fire, or not fireand it would come to absolutely the same thing.”
“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
