The Setting Sun

"I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again."

Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other title than the one that nature has bestowed on them, and others like us, who have nothing but titles, are closer to being pariahs than aristocrats.

thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.

I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not

A dissolute character without a tag is what frightens me."

romanticism" welled up within me. I have no sense of realism. And that this very fact might be what permits me to go on living sends cold

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit. I praised

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it 1 was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me

Last year nothing happened

The year before nothing happened

And the year before that nothing happened