It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.