Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.