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.
The only thing I can do now, he said to himself, and his thought was confirmed by the equal length of his own steps with the steps of the two others, the only thing I cando now is keep my common sense...
The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: 'I do not love you,' but: 'You cannot love me, much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your lov...
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then?
Judgement does not come suddenly; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement.
In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given up hope of genuine understanding as she conceives it.
If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.
If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.
I'm not in the right place - alas, I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I'm not in the right place.
I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.
I had to arrange things as well as I could. That's obviously a very bad place for the bed, in front of the door. For instance when the judge I'm painting at present comes he always comes through the d...
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
Das Gericht will nichts von Dir. Es nimmt Dich auf wenn Du kommst und es entläßt Dich wenn du gehst.
Calm —indeed the calmest— reflection might be better than the most confused decisions
But sometimes I really felt as though the starry sky rose and fell with the gasping of his chest.
But please, father, understand me correctly: these were completely insignificant details, yet they oppressed me, because you, a great man of authority, could lay down rules for me, and ignore them. A...
Anyway, it’s best not to think about them, as if you do it makes the discussions with the other lawyers, all their advice and all that they do manage to achieve, seem so unpleasant and useless, I had...
And it really was kind of the moon to shine on me, too, and out of modesty I was about to place myself under the arch of the tower bridge when it occurred to me that the moon, of course, shone on ever...
And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye...