A religious symbol conveys its message even if it is no longer consciously understood in every part. For a symbol speaks to the whole human being and… - Mircea Eliade

Aş suferi mai mult dacă aş fi respins. Iar eu vreau să înving întotdeauna. De aceea mă arăt retras, dispreţuitor. Nădăjduiesc într-un timp când munca mă va înălţa destul ca să atrag privirile. Suferinţele mele - până atunci - nu le va cunoaşte nimeni.

Am iubit întotdeauna pe mai multe planuri, n-am ştiut să sacrific totul pentru un sâmbure de adevăr sau de viaţă, de aceea m-am lovit de toate pragurile şi m-au dus valurile cum au vrut.

Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himself by a series of denials and refusals, but he continues to be haunted by the realities that he has refused and denied. To acquire a world of his own, he has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present in him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being.