Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
On the hill there was a poor old tramp wandering about with his stick, in among the carriages. A mass of rags covered his shoulders, and a squashed beaver-hat, bent down into the shape of a bowl, conc...
Read in order to live.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should...
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.
Self-possession depends on its environment.
I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days...
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
I feel torn to pieces by a rage of love.
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
اگر آدم فقط پنج شش کتاب را به خوبی می شناخت، چه محقق برجسته ای می شد
Léon was het uitzichtloos verliefd zijn meer dan beu; daarbij meldde zich de neerslachtigheid die wordt veroorzaakt door de sleur van een eentonig bestaan dat geen doel of leidraad heeft, dat niet wor...
How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.