To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Love those you hate you.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.