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.
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one’s memory.
It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.