If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.

---

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

---

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

---

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

---

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

---

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

---

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

---

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

---

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

---

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

---