Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.

A woman's body image is absolutely paramount to her health.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.

Under Trump, the US will give its blessing to Israeli imperialism and racism.

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B. Once you were beautiful.