Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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.

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

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

The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.