Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.