Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.
Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.