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

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.