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.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

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

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.