On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is painful.

An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.

I am a cat. As yet I have no name

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

Into the field of Yellow flowers The red setting sun!

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

It is easier to define whether or not you can afford something than whether you need it in the first place.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

There is only one river. There is only one sea. And it flows through you, and it flows through me. There is only one people. We are one and the same. We are all one spirit. We are all one name.

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

All that effort,” he mused, “merely to avoid me. How gratifying.

I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.