Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.