I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

Când ne deschidemtu mie şi eu ţie,când ne scufundămtu în mine şi eu în tine,când ne pierdemtu în mine şi eu în tine,Abia atuncieu sunt euşi tu eşti tu.

I could never stop comparing the way it was with Gertrud and the way it had been with Hanna; again and again, Gertrud and I would hold each other, and I would feel that something was wrong, that she was wrong, that she moved wrong and felt wrong, smelled wrong and tasted wrong. I thought I would get over it. I hoped it would go away. I wanted to be free of Hanna. But I never got over the feeling that something was wrong.

But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.

Über ihr damaliges Gesicht haben sich in meiner Erinnerung ihre späteren Gesichter gelegt. Wenn ich sie vor meine Augen rufe, wie sie damals war, dann stellt sie sich ohne Gesicht ein. Ich muß es rekonstruieren. Hohe Stirn, hohe Backenknochen, blaßblaue Augen, volle, ohne Einbuchtung gleichmäßig geschwungene Lippen, kräftiges Kinn. Ein großflächiges, herbes, frauliches Gesicht. Ich weiß, daß ich es schön fand. Aber ich sehe seine Schönheit nicht vor mir.

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

Tôi yêu cô say mê, phải chăng đó là cái giá phải trả cho việc cô ngủ với tôi? Cho đến giờ, sau một đêm với phụ nữ tôi có cảm giác mình đã được chiều chuộng và nay phải đền đáp lại - đền đáp cho người phụ nữ ấy, bằng cách là dù sao tôi cũng cố tìm cách yêu cô ta, và đền đáp cho thế giới mà tôi dám đương đầu.

I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.