The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.