One must be something to be able to do something.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.