"The man who has not been able to make a name for himself in the world is not a man."

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in these bones."

"What is the good of a book without pictures or conversations?"

"I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, which is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. My poor, dear Milena, you are only a woman, you are not a man, you do not understand that for a man there is alw…"

"What is the good of a book that does not transport you beyond all experience?"