This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

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

April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.