That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
True friends stab you in the front.
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.