“Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!”

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”

“…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.”

“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.”

“Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most fleshly lust? The result is perfect clarity in ambiguity, for love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even at its most fleshly. Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life.”

“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”

“Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.”