It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

Even if mankind can go on without them, a piece of our vibrantly diverse world dies along with each species.

Everywhere my feet have touched on this planet has been magic, why cant others see it this way?

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.

I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and its all here.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.