If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.