Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

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.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

The warrior must never get angry in war.

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Truth is in the guidance of the Coven. Is it a curse or a blessing?

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.

I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.

In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.

Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.