The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.
Reverence is fatal to literature.
I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.