The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.