Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.
it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.
Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.
Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.