1. "I am a cage, in search of a bird."

2. "All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what Is apparently at issue."

3. "In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world."

4. "I cannot make you understAND. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me."

5. "Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a New bureaucracy."

6. "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."

7. "Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."

8. "I have nothing to say of My working life, only that a wage doesn't make a person rich."

9. "I am always trying to convey something that can't be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable."

10. "From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."

11. "The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon."

12. "For I am no longer myself, at least I'm not the same self as yesterday."

13. "I cannot escape the feeling that I was born for some particular task, and it is incumbent upon me to find out what that task is and fulfill it."

14. "I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."

15. "The world is beyond saving and doomed to perish, but it is worth creating."

16. "The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked, it can't do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you."

17. "Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."

18. "It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary."

19. "An artist is the man who admits what others don't dare reveal."

20. "God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."

21. "My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me."

22. "The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings."

23. "Morality suffocates the best part of man."

24. "Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self."

25. "There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken from him, not ended."

26. "In a sense, one can never read the book that the librarian has not read."

27. "From a certain point on, there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."

28. "In one sense at least, our work is that of the restoration of balance."

29. "A faith like that, lived out in absolute solitude, is hardly human."

30. "The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."

31. "From a certain point of view, the world is almost nothing but rubbish."

32. "One can only beg for the freedom to be human, to be inhuman."

33. "The lie breaks the world, and afterwards there is only death."

34. "I'm too weak to be the hero in real life. I'm not a hero; I'm only a man."

35. "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."

36. "The world will let you go as long as you continue to entertain it."

37. "Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."

38. "For it is only in dying that freedom is born."

39. "I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a wage doesn't make a person rich."

40. "A scientific truth doesn't triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

41. "No one can take from you what you've already given."

42. "All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog."

43. "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy."

44. "The meaning of life is that it stops."

45. "No true understanding, no knowledge, no insights can be achieved beyond the absurd consequences."

46. "Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that there is purpose to this universe."

47. "In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world."

48. "My talent for portraying an anxiety ridden existence is eclipsed by my talent for portraying an anxiety ridden existence."

49. "There's infinite hope, but not for us."

50. "From certain death there is only one escape - through victory."