The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.