What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.