We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.