If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else. ” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it. ” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
We are all born marked for evil.
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.
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Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.