Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.
