When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.