The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

Summoned or not, the god will come.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.