Please — consider me a dream.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.