It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

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.