One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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.

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.