There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.