To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.