The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates, because it clears away the traces of our own age; it cheers, because everything cleared away means to the destroyer a complete reduction, indeed a rooting out, of his own condition.

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.