Writing [is] a form of prayer.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I do not see the world at all; I invent it.