Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

You are free, and that is why you are lost.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.