As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.