To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.