The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.