To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!