And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.