“Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do.”
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“I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.”

As quoted in a press release by A&M Records (1989) http://www.elrarecords.com/sunra.html

But I am a Jew and glad to belong to the Jewish people, though I do not regard it in any way as chosen.
Letter to Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, 3 [5] April 1920, as quoted in Alice Calaprice, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010), p. 195; citing Israelitisches Wochenblatt, 42 September 1920, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 7, Doc. 37, and Vol. 9, Doc 368.
1920s
“Sometimes it as though I were in hell and I do not grieve. I do not find anything to grieve over.”
A veces estoy en un infierno y no me lamento. No encuentro de qué lamentarme.
Voces (1943)

Chatshow Net http://www.chatshow.com/Interviews/interview.aspx?interviewID=23 interview with Lara Lewington 07/13/01

“But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Letter to Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, 3 [5] April 1920, as quoted in Alice Calaprice, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010), p. 195; citing Israelitisches Wochenblatt, 42 September 1920, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 7, Doc. 37, and Vol. 9, Doc 368.<!-- obviously, parts of this can be taken out of context -->
1920s