The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.
Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.
I carry the bars within me.
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.
The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.
Love is a drama of contradictions.
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.
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