Classical books and where to find them

I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have the time, I will come to understand you - better than anyone in the world.

The greatest madness a man can commit in this life is to let himself die

To go on living in the midst of feelings like this is intolerable. Isn't there someone who will be good enough to strangle me while i sleep?

"Though I can believe in the devil" "Then why don't you believe in God? If you believe in the shadow, you cannot help believing in the light, can you?" "But there is darkness without light, isn't there?"

Again I began to feel that absolutely everything was a lie: politics, business, art, science-all without exception were nothing else to me than enamel which concealed this frightful life.

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.

"Why do you attack the present social system?" "Because I see the evils that capitalism has engendered." "Evils? I thought you recognized no difference between good and evil. How do you make a living, then?"

He knew well enough what was wrong with him: he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them - afraid of the society he so despised.

He wanted to live life so intensely that he could die at any moment without regrets.

Then the whole area was quiet. No - I could hear someone weeping. While I was untying myself, I listened to the sound, until I realized, I realized that I was the one crying.

I kill with my sword, but people like you don’t use swords. You gentlemen kill with your power, with your money, and sometimes just with your words. True, no blood flows, the man is still alive, but you’ve killed him all the same. I don’t know whose sin is greater - yours or mine.

My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse: I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. Only that seems large enough to hold all of my rage and grief. i want the world overturned like a bowl of eggs, smashed at my feet.