How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. - Harry Haller

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.