Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.

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.

I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.