Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.