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

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.

The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.