Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.