I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.