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.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

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

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

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

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."