I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.