My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.
No one can crave what truly harms him.
It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.