If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.