Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

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

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.