It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

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

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness