And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.

Cultivate your Futurism. I'll cultivate my Döblinism.

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

Embrace reality by imagination.

I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.

The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.

There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby and invisible.

I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

The energies represented by the four #‎ elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with #‎ astrology