The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.