We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.
I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.