They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours.

You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.