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 cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

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.