Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

What's meant to be will always find a way

I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die.

Believing business is easy boosts your self-confidence.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.

Believe in everything you do cause if you don't have self-belief, you'll be clueless.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.