“Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.”

“When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagi...”

“The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everythingand this is the most cruel lawcontinually gets worse.”

“When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.”

“We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.”

“To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.”

“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”

“The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”

“When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again.”

“It was Monday morning. Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes. he considered Monday specially unpleasant in the calendar. After the delicious freedom of Saturday and Sunday, it was difficult to...”

“Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.”