She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--