It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
The Real gives me asthma.
Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
We all give up great expectations along the way.
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
We have learned to see the world in gasps.
Tutto nasce dalla paura. Molte battaglie non vengono vinte dalla sola capacità di battersi, ma dal controllo degli istinti degli uomini.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.
I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.
Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
Those who don't know must learn from those who do.
