Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing.

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.