Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.