Of All The Ways Of Acquiring Books,

How Many Cities Have Revealed Themselves To Me In The Marches I Undertook In The Pursuit Of Books!

In The World's Structure Dream Loosens Individuality Like A Bad Tooth.

If Mythic Violence Is Lawmaking, Divine Violence Is Law-​destroying; If The Former Sets Boundaries, The Latter Boundlessly Destroys Them; If Mythic Violence Brings At Once Guilt And Retribution, Divine Power Only Expiates; If The Former Threatens, The Latter Strikes; If The Former Is Bloody, The Latter Is Lethal Without Spilling Blood

Every Image Of The Past That Is Not Recognised By The Present As One Of Its Own Threatens To Disappear Irretrievably.

Ideas Are To Objects As Constellations Are To Stars [translated From Trauerspiel, 1928].