The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.