“Having deprived me of seas, of running and flying away, and allowing me only to walk upon this violent earth, what you achieved? A splendid result! You could not keep my lips from moving.” —Osip Mandelstam
“Some people appear to give up on love, and you see the lifelessness in their faces. The soul craves love, and if you give up on love because it is so difficult, the life will seep out of you like air out of a punctured tyre. You will go flat. You may wonder why life has no meaning…
“Man does not know himself and does not know how to use the energies hidden in him, nor does he know that he carries the stars hidden in himself and that he is the microcosm, and thus carries within him the whole firmament with all its influence.” —Paracelsus