I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.