“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .”
“Go within every day and find the inner strengthso that the world will not blow your candle out.”
“There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?”
“Some will see your flame and want to blow it out...others will approach with a candle...”
“Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.”
“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ”