Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
An old novel has a history of its own.
It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!
I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If you play his works passively, the juice of his music is really not going to be extracted - it's simply not going to come out.
The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.
I am not the least afraid to die