Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Life is fragile and absurd.