So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.

One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!

It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone.

This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.