Selected Essays and Notebooks | 
"'You will tremble before death.'
Yes, but I shall have left nothing unfulfilled in my mission, which is to live. Don't give way to conformity and to office hours. Don't give up. Never give up--always demand more. But stay lucid, even during office hours. As soon as we are alone in its presence, strive after the nakedness into which the world rejects us. But above all, in order to be, never try to seem."