As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

I will leave no memoirs.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

Eventually we all must return home, Praetor. We must embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark." — Orion

So, basically, I have the impossible task of finding a non-smelly, drug-free virgin?

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

If Wenger had strengthened in the window, Arsenal could have been stronger