So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.