One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.