We need the books that affect us like a disaster

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

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.

One reads in order to ask questions

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

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