The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.