Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.