I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.
Evil is whatever distracts.
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.