Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
The truth is always an abyss.
This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.
The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.
You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
I won’t give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.
Evil is the starry sky of the Good.
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.
Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.
The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.
Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction – that would not be anything to be deplored – but a weakness of conviction.
My life was sweeter than other people’s and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
What do I have in common with Jews? I don’t even have anything in common with myself.
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
You too have weapons.