Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.