After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

Men become old, but they never become good.