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.

He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

One reads in order to ask questions