Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.