a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

Friendship is identification and difference

Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.