Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.