My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.