You have to hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world: this is something you are free to do and is in accord with your nature, but perhaps precisely this holding back is the only suffering that you might be able to avoid.
You are free and that is why you are lost.
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.
Writers speak a stench.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
We are separated from God on two sides: the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
There are two main human sins, from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructable element in oneself and not striving towards it.
