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.

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.