The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.