I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

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.

There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

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.