Novelist

Ayah, surat saya tentang Anda. Anda adalah ukuran semua hal bagi saya.

Kebenaran adalah apa yang setiap orang butuhkan untuk hidup dan belum bisa didapatkan atau dibeli dari siapapun.

Evil is whatever distracts.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Dalam damai Anda tidak maju, dalam perang Anda berdarah sampai mati.

Writers speak stench.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Cinta adalah bahwa Anda adalah pisau yang saya aduk sendiri.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

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.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.