Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.