Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.

One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.