The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.