One reads in order to ask questions

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.