He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.