What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world. (p. 65)

If I have ventured wrongly, very well, life then helps me with its penalty. But if I haven't ventured at all, who helps me then? (pp. 64 - 65)

What characterizes despair is just this - that it is ignorant of being despair. (p. 75)

The world has generally no understanding of what is truly horrifying. The despair that not only does not cause any inconvenience in life, but makes life conven…