The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Evil is whatever distracts.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.