“How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?”

“A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.”

“A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.”

“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.”

“The stranger’s way of looking at things, the eye of a man who does not recognize, who is beyond this world, the eye as frontier between being & non-being — belongs to the thinker. It is also the eye of a dying man, a man losing recognition.”

“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly”

“Admirable man, who know teeth by dreams, think you that all those of philosophers are decayed?”