The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us.

I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.

I never went to church as a child. I did not .

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.