Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.

An extreme passion of any human being is to be unique

He tastes like mint and posession and fire.

Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

Any human being has private thoughts.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?