Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

ٰ"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.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

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

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.