Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!

The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.