At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

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

In a way, I was safe writing

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.