originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.