It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.