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?

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.