Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority