“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

There is no truth. There is only perception.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.

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.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

What’s my favourite food? One you order out.

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.

It is only when you put your house in order that your furniture and decorations come to life.

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare.

Your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. To put things in order means to put your past in order, too.

May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order that through you the oneness of humanity may establish its temple in the world of mankind