All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!