Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.