Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom. - André Gide

Wild animals passed on their way under the leaves; each track was an arterial road; and when I stooped and looked at the earth close to, I saw, from leaf to leaf and flower to flower, a moving host of insects.

When people felt they had a right to seek out Christ before the torment, and in the fullness of his joy—it was too late; the cross had overcome Christ himself; it was Christ crucified that people continued to see and teach. And thus it is that religion came to plunge the world into gloom.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...