It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.