“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...”

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”

“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, c...”

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.”

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”

“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, though each individual idea, expressed separatel...”