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.

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.