Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.