People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

We can only learn to love by loving.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.