A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness.

As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.