The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

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.

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

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.

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