I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

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.