One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.
Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.