I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I.

Dostoevsky vs. Camus

He who masters the grey every day is a hero.

Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty.

Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life.

Here the secret lies.

Here lies the entire story.

The more you love, the closer you come to joining the great poets and saints.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything.

If there is no God, then I am God.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars.

'I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.'

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Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

“On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.”

“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?”

“It seems essential in relationships and all tasks that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”

'The world is not an inferior product, and animals are not a fabrication for our use.'

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”