In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.