Who said “There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.”?

“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.”

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”

“Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.”

“If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.”

“Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.”

“The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.”

“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”

“Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.”

“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”

“Youth is a period of missed opportunities.”