The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
Those who live are those who fight.
Morality is truth in full bloom.
Revolution is the larva of civilization.
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Loving is half of believing.
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Monastic incarceration is castration.
Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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