Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

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

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.