We are all born marked for evil.

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.

There is no such thing as loving a child too much.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

Some men and women move mountains, even if it's one shovel full at a time.

Rules come from the mind and judgment.Values come from the heart, because of this, love has no rules, love only has values.

The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights