Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'