I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

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.

If you have something standing between you and your goals, don't wait for it to move... go around it.

Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.

You can never miss your fate, " Eleni would always say. "Even if it feels like it, it only means that your fate isn't what you thought.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.

So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.

Judges in Texas swing the gavel with one hand and take money with the other.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.