“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.”

“Hell isother people!”

“So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot poke...”

“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”

“You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself in my mind. Painfully conscious.”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”