Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

I am wishing of a memory, where you gave me everything you hadand where I offered you the pieces that were leftof me.

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.

I collect jewelry for a story - so something I got on a trip or something I got from my family. You know it always needs to have a meaning for me.

I see now that true love isn’t fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have.

Its not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.