It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.