The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. |
The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature. |
The author in his book must be like God in his universe, everywhere present and nowhere visible. |
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. |
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. |
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. |
The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft |
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois |
There is no truth. There is only perception. |
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it |
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. |
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. |
What is beautiful is moral; that is all there is to it. |
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man |
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. |