If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.