The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
Time does us violence; it is the only violence.
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.