The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

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

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.