The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.