His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?