If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.