Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger

We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill.