Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of – another Jew?
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
The sun’s sweet ray is hovering discovered.
I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
God will pardon: That’s His business.
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
Lo, sleep is good, better is death – in sooth The best of all were never to be born.
A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.
First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.
With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
Good Luck is a giddy maid, Fickle and restless as a fawn; She smooths your hair; and then the jade Kisses you quickly, and is gone.
Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.