Religions get lost as people do.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark