We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.