Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.