All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.