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?

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.