Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.