In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.