Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

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.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.