There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
The truth is always an abyss.
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
First impressions are always unreliable.
He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
Books are a narcotic.
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.
Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.
The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.
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