"FEW have lied more arrantly or quizzed the world with greater delight than Stendhal; few have told the truth with more profundity than he."

"MANY YEARS a favorite wish has accompanied me. This favorite wish was a pretty one, — a refuge."

"Perhaps you have hit upon the ideal of being a poet because you see a poet as an original, a perceptive and a pious man, pure in heart..."

" I fear we are most of us like Mrs. Poyser's bantam cock, who fancied the sun got up every morning to hear him crow."

"Sport presents three main elements: the spectacle, the competition, and the personalities of the gladiators."

'I believe what we lack is joy. The ardor that a heightened awareness imparts to life,.."

"Thus it was not long before I began to see the world as long-voyage sailors must always have seen it."

"We can count these stars, and yet we cannot believe that we exist as far as they are concerned."

"Go and sit in a grove or woods, with one or more of those voiceless companions, and read the foregoing, and think."

"The sea is like music; it has all the dreams of the soul within itself and sounds them over."

"So we say farewell to a dear and faithful friend, whose virtues we remember — and dogs have few faults."

"Words, then, are not useful. Let us now enquire into their other quality, their positive quality, that is, their power to tell the truth."

" But here, none too soon, are the second-hand bookshops. Here we find anchorage in these thwarting currents of being..."

"Little by little I made an inner life for myself. I read a great deal of Hugo and Gautier. We begin with the picturesque and the romantic."

"Jung has on various occasions referred to the myth of the "night sea journey" cited by Frobenius, which he named the "whale dragon myth"."

Botticelli - The birth of Venus, detail (1485) Extracts from : Walter Odajnyk Archetype and Character Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter...

"Although in the popular imagination Eros is seen in personal and human terms as love, it is primarily an abstract and cosmic principle."

"The introverted attitude is characterized by detachment and by enjoyment of solitude and privacy."

"His own world is a safe harbour, a carefully tended and walled-in garden, closed to the public and hidden from prying eyes."

"Sheer misery makes one profound. — But here there are no problems, mere existence needs no justification, thinking becomes a game."

"I lie and gaze into the evening skv. which for hours has been slowly covering itself with small, silent, tangled clouds."

"There is a kind of rainy weather that is refreshing and cheerful. Today's weather is not."

"The final aim of Zen is the experience of enlightenment, called satori."