In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.