Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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