I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.