W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.
Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one’s sides.
Don’t change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.
The world was indeed a kind of screen and did not manifest itself other than by passing me on and on – I was just the bouncing ball that objects played with!
Don’t be fooled by your own wisdom.
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.