I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it.

The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the very light of God's truth, hated and fled from in vain by those who love darkness.

When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish.

This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges

He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

I get a lot of letters from people.

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

A husband should only be a part of your life and not your entire life.