When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Your soul is the whole world.

It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.

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

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?