Atunci am înțeles că nimic nu durează în suflet, că cea mai verificată încredere poate fi anulată de un singur gest, că cele mai sincere posesiuni nu… - Mircea Eliade

"It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death, followed by the rebirth of the lunar type ("light coming out of darkness"); weaving, the symbol of the "thread of life," fate, temporality, and death; and yet others. In general most of the ideas of cycle, dualism, polarity, opposition, conflict, but also of reconciliation of contraries, of coincidentia oppositorum, were either discovered or clarified by virtue of lunar symbolism. We may even speak of a metaphysics of the moon, in the sense of a consistent system of "truths" relating to the mode of being peculiar to living creatures, to everything in the cosmos that shares in life, that is, in becoming, growth and waning, death and ressurrection."

[...]Tinerii aceştia vor păstra întotdeauna faţă de femei o atitudine confuză, lipsită de perspective şi de nuanţe. Într-o continuă disponibilitate conjugală, ei vor privi femeia sexual şi sentimental, adică posesiv. Cred că le-ar fi greu să cunoască o femeie frumoasă, fară să aibă îndată un joc mental — de imaginaţie sau de tactică — orientat sexual. Oricâte femei ar cunoaşte şi ar avea, nu vor intui totuşi decât un singur tip (sau o singură faţetă) feminin: soaţa, femeia asupra căreia el are drepturi legale. O camaradă, o prietenă, o colaboratoare, o amantă, o maestră sau o elevă (in dragoste) — le sunt inaccesibile.

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.