I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

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I carry the bars within me.

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You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.

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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

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Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.

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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

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Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

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Having a trial like that means losing a trial like that (Sufrir un proceso es casi haberlo perdido)

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