Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.