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

Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.