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

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

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