I don't want to disappear.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Music is the language of the universe

You ought to ask God for a specific task. And He will grant you grace to accomplish it.

Crying out loud but there is no one to regret it, Smile a little and they'll join the party

Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?""Girls don't often ask questions like that, " said Hermione."Well, they should!" said Harry forcefully.

Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental moral and spiritual asphyxiation and sometimes death death to energy and all growth.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love.

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.