I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

His emotion evident in the glitter of his eyes.

If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.