Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

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.

Strangely enough, I don't seem to tolerate food in great quantities or when it is too rich anymore.”“That's perfectly all right. Most people dig their graves with their own teeth as it is.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.

I gained another friend.