Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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.