Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?
Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
Oh! how many times we die before death!
I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.
nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.
I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable.
I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.