If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.
I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.
I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?
It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.
To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
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