Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

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.

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.