"The only thing that matters is to live, to live, to live."

"I am a most unhappy man. I have been reduced to a state of utter destitution. I am a pauper. I have no money, no clothes, no shoes, no home, no wife, no children, no friends, no hope, no health, no st…"

"I am sorry that I have not been able to write to you more often, but I have been very busy, and I am also very lazy."

"I am a man who has suffered much for the sake of his art."

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."