The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.