Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.