He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.
The business of art lies just in this, – to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it.
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other’s eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
There are as many loves as there are hearts.
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
Each time of life has its own kind of love.
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn’t my own.
Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men’s consciousness by the law of love.
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.