And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

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

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

Without music, life would be a mistake.