I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.

Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.