No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.