How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
The wise man is astonished by anything.
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.