I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.