Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
The truth is always an abyss.
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.
Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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?
First impressions are always unreliable.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.
There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.
He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
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.
The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
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