Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.