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

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.