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.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

First impressions are always unreliable.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.