German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of...
I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily to me, not just the present and the future, but even the past, that thing that each man r...
It is entirely conceivable that life's splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from our view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostil...
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insa
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.", July 5, 1922]
The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.
Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all direction...
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
In our folk nobody has any experience of youth, there’s barely even any time for being a toddler. The children simply don’t have any time in which they might be children........Indeed... there’s simpl...
I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
The poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man
Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.
Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.
Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?
You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
The meaning of life is that it ends
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.