From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.