It seems so dreadful to be a bachelor, to become an old man struggling to keep one's dignity while begging for an invitation whenever one wants to spend an evening in company, having to carry one's me...
Incidentally, it’s easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.
Illusions are more common than changes in fortune
If you come to me you will be leaping into the abyss.
I was making for that city in the south of which it was said in our village:There you'll find queer folk! Just think, they never sleep!And why not?Because they never get tired.And why not?Because they...
I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actu...
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.
For when one is about to embark on some enterprise, it is precisely the books whose contents have nothing at all in common with the enterprise that are the most useful.
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...
All the people who try to torment me, and who have now occupied the entire space around me, will quite gradually be thrust back by the beneficent passage of these days, without my having to help them...
All he wanted to do now was to get up quietly and undisturbed, get dressed, and, most important, eat breakfast, and only then consider what to do next, because, as he was well aware, in bed he could n...
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
لست أقوى على حمل الدنيا فوق كتفي، ولا أنا أحتمل حتى ثقل معطفي فوقهما
You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair.
Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
Wir brauchen aber die Bücher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Unglück, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wie lieber hatten als uns, wie wenn wir in Wälder verstoßen würden, von allen Menschen w...
The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.