Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

In a way, I was safe writing

The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.