It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.