I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Beauty will save the world

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.