It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.
It seems hard to remain a bachelor...to model your appearance and behaviour on one or two bachelors remembered from your youth. That is how it will be, only that in reality it will be you yourself sta...
It is to us artisans and tradesmen that the salvation of the fatherland is entrusted; but we are not equal to such a task; never, indeed, have we claimed that we were capable of performing it. It is a...
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary
Inspiraţia de un anume tip, pe care eu, cel mai fericit şi mai nefericit, o am acum, la două noaptea, când mă duc la culcare (ea va persista, poate, numai să suport să mă gândesc la ea, căci este supe...
I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.
I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to...
I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?
It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.
[He] used to be soinsignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.
my heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle,
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
الحب بالنسبة لي هو أنك السكين التي أديرها مغروسة في داخلي
إنه لمما يؤلم غاية الألم أن يُحكم المرءُ بناءً على قوانين لا يعرفها
We are instructed to do the negative; the positive is already within us.
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presente...
Then birds flew up like a shower of sparks, I followed them with my eyes and saw how they rose in a single breath, until they seemed no longer to be rising but I to be falling...