All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

There is probably no point in my going into your questions now; for what I could say about your tendency to doubt or about your inability to bring your outer a…

It must be immense, this silence, in which sounds and movements have room, and if one thinks that along with all this the presence of the distant sea also reso…

If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most al…

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

Jamais nous ne goutons de parfaite allegresse: Nos plus heureux succes sont meles de tristesse.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other wi…