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

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .