From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

I like to make use of what I know

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

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

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