To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.