“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

“Art is the proper task of life. ”