Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

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

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.