The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife.
The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater. . . The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there.
To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth.
Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.
I can't do that. I'm already the single guy living in his parents' house. I can't be seen digging a grave in the middle of the night.
The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.
We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.