We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.

Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.

True time is four-dimensional.

Only a god can save us.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

To dwell is to garden.