Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

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

Evil is whatever distracts.

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.