In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Religions get lost as people do.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Writers speak stench.