Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.