Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Hombro con hombro, una cadena de hermanos, una sangre no ya encerrada en la mezquina circulación del cuerpo, sino circulando con una dulzura y sin embargo regresando sin fin a través de China.

Der Sinn für die Darstellung meines traumhaften innern Lebens hat alles andere ins Nebensächliche gerückt, und es ist in einer schrecklichen Weise verkümmert und hört nicht auf, zu verkümmern. Nichts anderes kann mich jemals zufriedenstellen.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Isn ‘ t it obvious that a person would leave from where he is hated so much? The heroism of staying in such a place is that of a roach which won ‘ t be...

Religions get lost as people do.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement...

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful,...

Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you anymore

One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.