My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

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

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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.

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

Religions get lost as people do.