Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.