All our knowledge is symbolic.

Let there be truth between us.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.