Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.

Normal people have nothing to forget.

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.