They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.