"The more one thinks of them, the more one feels that the most beautiful things in the world are those which are most absurd."

"The most common deception is when a person deceives himself; the next most common is when he deceives others; the least common is when he deceives himself into believing that he is deceiving others."

"The highest good is not to be understood as an abstract, but as a concrete, as a personality."

"What is a poet? An unhappy being who conceals profound agonies in his heart but whose lips are so formed that when the sighs and cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music."

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."