For the nature of women is closely allied to art

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.