Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.