We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.