Love is a drama of contradictions.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.