It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.
Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.
Develop an Interest in Life as you see it.
When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.
The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the contrary, we were made obtuse, we were wrapped in a fog of words and abstractions.
The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.
The vast difference between astrology and other sciences, if I may put it thus, is that astrology deals not with facts but with profundities. The solid ground on which the scientist pretends to rest gives way, in astrology, to imponderables.
The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.
I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
I’m a bit retarded, like most Americans.
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
I’m delirious because I’m dying so fast.
Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.
Who wants to be a hundred? What’s the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world.
The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.