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The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed... →
The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere... →
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.