I am myself and I am here.

But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?

We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident