“Hay ocasiones en que no comprendo cómo puede amar a otro hombre, cómo se atreve a amar a otro hombre, cuando yo la amo con un amor tan perfecto, tan profundo,tan inmenso; cuando no conozco más que a ella, ni veo más que a ella, ni pienso más que en ella.”
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”
“Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?”
“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.”
“If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.”
“God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.”